> The Press Start Journal invites the submission of analyses and reflections regarding the recent controversies surrounding the plurality of players, communities of play, and perceived gamer culture. We could use this as a platform against the academia bullshit on games:

So I posted a bunch of info on that Dragon Quest forum some Anon posted earlier. The thread has 5 viewers. Hope it was worth the two hours I invested into this.

At least one acknowledged that the topic is bigger than they expected. Thread is moving slow, probably because no auto update. I haven't used forums aside from 2-3 posts on nichegamer for years. How do people stay up to date with the thread without auto update!?

To be honest, I don't much care if there's human/pokemon fusion or not.

I honestly just play pokemon for the adventure. Catch pokemon, raise them, explore all the different places with them.

I mean, I'll use them, just like I use megas. But megas never made a huge impact for me

What I REALLY hope for is that there's a female protagonist that looks more mature (similar to Hilda from Black/White) and/or trainer customization.

Also I'm really glad they're aiming for a worldwide release. This year made me realize how good simultaneous worldwide releases are. It means the games are localized in-house rather than being given to localization teams who'll fuck everything up.

What simultaneous release does is put tons of pressure on the localizers and does not give them time to fart around or be clever little bastards. But it is not foolproof, just moreso than non worldwide releases.

>You will never lay in bed with Freya and Danielle as you read them a story and fall asleep with them until Danielle wakes you up for a glass of water and she holds your hand all the way up to the kitchen and back to bed

The fact that Star Fox Zero's having a worldwide release and presumably, based on Platinum Games' previous Wii U games dual audio gives me hope that this game won't be impacted too much by Treehouse's fuckery, but the fact it's a NINTENDO game still makes me worry, especially since it's the only game of 2016 I even want to play.

Sure, it's only a few people, but it's likely passionate people, so even if they don't get involved now, then they'll now have torrential downpour as a dormant piece of info, that they might get reminded of, if treehouse starts fucking with games they are even more interested in.

I might, if only because the gameplay looks extremely solid despite being motion control faggotry, plus you can't go wrong with a Platinum Games' Star Fox. But the instant I hear of memes inserted that aren't Star Fox related, instantly buying it used.

Anyways, good for him, I always thought the fact that he made 4chan would be a huge put off when looking for normal jobs. I certainly would put that shit in m resume. I have no idea what moot working with google is gonna bring.

So basically Sheri Graner Ray is an upper middle class woman that makes speeches as a "woman in games" at GDC, Pax, SXSW, Captivate Conference, etc, that pushes the narrative out in Austin. There is just one small problem….. This woman doesn't actually produce any games on her own, and only worked as a "designer" for Sony 11 years ago. Her resume consists of mostly bottom tier mobile games companies and her own shell company for the past 11 years. She has mostly fluff on her resume and short term credits for games probably based on nepotism and networking. So she goes to industry events as some type of bigwig and expert and her career in the industry is solely based on networking and connections.

I strongly dislike people like her because she can easily afford classes to become a real game developer, instead she wastes her money on sports cars literally, and spends all of her time networking instead of actually making any games. She even knows and is friends with the local instructors that teach game programming and game art at Austin Community College, and the instructors at UT Austin Denius Sams Gaming Academy. So she goes around to all these conferences as another crappy designer with no technical skills pushing the narrative. Everything is solely based on networking with this woman.

Classes would have only costed her a few thousand dollars out in Austin and she blows it on sports cars. These entitled people think they deserve to be designers and devs at AAA companies when they have no skills basically and wasted everything on sports cars. I despise what they stand for.

>“Let me tell you, there is nothing casual about the way my mom plays ‘Candy Crush.’ She sat me down and told me all about the strategy and how to turn the time back on her iPad so she wouldn’t have to pay for it,” Sarkeesian said. “Mobile games changed who makes games, who plays them and what a gamer is.”

Here's a little lesson in marketing, guys. The target of those ads are girls who don't know what an OS is, and who confuse "the internet" with facebook. They aren't computer addicts, and they definitely aren't actually interested in engineering or any such thing.

Now I might be sounding cynical, but there is something that people have been trained to not notice in advertisement, and it's the difference between what is said and what isn't said.

Some people see a stupid cunt who cannot hold this shit right. A woman who's definitely not supposed to be in this field and she's there, actually, only because she's a "guuuuurl"

Other people will see it as encouraging, a woman who doesn't need to present herself, to rely on only her looks to "become", she can be whatever she wants as long as she gets into it.

Other people will go deeper, and notice her shirt clearly is too well ironed out to be something that isn't staged; the lighting, the make-up, etc. "It's all fake !", they'll say, proud of themselves.

Now take a look at her hand.

No, not the right hand, that's what they're telling you to look at so you don't notice what they're hoping you see but don't notice.

Her left hand.

She's wearing a wedding ring. With a nice diamond on it, mind you.

This woman, however involved she is in whatever field, has still dedicated enough energy, time and effort into getting someone to fiance her.

THIS is what the target of this ad wants. This is what they are hoping for, and will never neither admit nor even realize. "I am getting into computers because I AM A SMART WOMAN", yet they keep being directed and diverted by the necessity to be validated by someone else. They still give just as much value to marriage and being a housewife, but now they're just putting make-up all over that fetish so they can live with the shame of being "bad" women, "worthless" women, or whatever else they think of women who do things just so that MEN notice them.

This is what an ad is for. So you see exactly, precisely, and, most importantly, only what you want to see.

Now ask yourself : how many men saw this and didn't notice the ring either ? What were they focusing on instead ?

And that's precisely why it's the most important part of the ad. It is all staged. It's all constructed and made up. So why add this ? Something so specific and symbolic ?

Ads don't do anything by accident. The way she holds this stick is not a coincidence; it's either on purpose to piss off actual engineers (and get guuuurls even more involved in this "MEN ARE TRYING TO RULE OVER ME" or whatever else), or it's ignored because it's entirely irrelevant to what the ad is selling.

So if something so important to the field it's mentioning is ignored, why the hell would they give enough of a shit to give this model this specific ring ?

I noticed the lack of a hair protection, bad clothing, mishandling the siddering iron since I listend to my female shop teacher give us warnings about how to handle equipment appropriatly. As for the ring, I am not suprised she is married, but a diamond ring that costs more than An engineer can make in many months is suspect as fuck.

>It's not totally inaccurate to how she plays though. She is a legitimate tank in Conquest. She can cut through anyone. She was the last unit I used towards the end of the game that wasn't one of Corrin's siblings or a healer. She takes little damage from anyone and she can take out enemies in a single hit.

I noticed the ring because she is in a lab environment with jewelry, earrings included. That is a huge red flag.

People in STEM fields can be married and have kids I have a lab tech that works with me that has 3 kids, but if they bring in stuff that causes safety and contamination risks I want them the fuck out of my lab.

You're missing my point, and the ad's. Of course all those things are stupid, which is specifically why they're there. So that girls who give no shit about engineering will care about this ad.

Again : the very women who are into this are vapid women who pretend they are wise enough to not want cosmetics and bois, yet spend their entire time on jewelry and getting engaged to someone who is rich enough to afford something she could buy her own self.

She's not wearing the ring on just any finger. It's on this one for a reason. "You could have sex with anyone but now YOU are in control of who gets to stick it in ! And he better be treating you like a goddamn PRINCESS. Anyway, about that scholarship to become a proud independent womin…"

Of course people in STEM can be married; this isn't the point of the ad. I mean, it's an ad, of course it's not meant to represent any amount of reality.

Nah I got your point, I just disagree. What I see here is marketers using sex to sell. They use a young, conventionally attractive woman, give her that "sexy librarian/teacher/doctor" look, make her do some science looking shit in a science looking lab, and then check out for an early lunch and a few lines of coke.

However that all changes based on the greater context of what the ad was used for.

If it was used in a brochure or the like to show that company x is innovative, hardworking, and tech savy, then I'd have to go with them using a woman to show a pleasing image to the viewer for the 2 seconds they glance at it.

If the ad was used to promote women in tech then I would agree with you.

Finally if it was used to sell soldering irons or computer hardware then it would mean that the company is retarded.

I'm also in doubt how much this could interest normal fag. It would probably work best if "look what these SJW did" rhetoric was toned down, in favor of "Treehouse rewrote Flannel's line that make him seem sexist." or something like that.

It seems like one of the thing Treehouse is doing, is insert political correctness in those lines that only needs minor, but important altering to attain that goal.

But it's hard to tell with the completely lack of transparency from Treehouse and Nintendo regarding how they do localization.

That reminds me, the guy spamming the "#FireEmblemFates localization is insulting to be frank. #FireEmblem #TorrentialDownpour " tweet every 2-4 hours. If you're in here and reading this, I don't think it's really doing any favor at this point

She is all but sexy though, and that's the point. She's extremely covert with her clothes, the make-up is intensely timid and discreet (meaning she doesn't have obvious mascara or lipstick on), she doesn't have a "perfect" haircut, she's only moderately attractive and the glasses aren't even making her look all that cute anyway.

See, the thing is, it is a case of "sex sells", as marriage still represents to a female crowd the pure ultimate fetish. It's just that they've now been conditioned to refute that absolutely, to swear they totally don't.

There were tons of ways to make her look "cute", or at the very least to emphasize her attractiveness; they didn't because the very purpose of the ad was to give porn to the target audience, like any ad does. Here, the porn scene is about being geeky enough to not be very pretty and in a field that pays enough to not need no man, but still, you need a man, you demand a man, and one that adores you enough to hand you a ring that cost him three months of salary.

That's porn for women.

It's also obvious it wasn't in a brochure; if it was it would've come from people whom at the very least are able to notice some of that shit.

It's also not to sell irons, as the target audience for those would immediately notice the stupidity. That would rek all chances to promote their brand.

Again : the ring is here on purpose. They could've hidden it or asked her to take it off or put on some gloves or used a man or used a woman just sitting there smiling in the middle of a lab or

Eh, what my actual work consists of is pretty boring if you don't appreciate the greater result that you are working toward. I mainly just grow cells, make mutants, grow mutant cells, run some electricity through them, put them in an hourglass looking instrument and count the amount that made it through. and occasionally operate mouse auschwitz

It takes a certain amount of autism to get into but

there is the bonus of being able to say that you work with biological weapons in order to cure cancer, at bars and parties.

It's not an ad, it's a stock-image. The target audience is a businessperson slapping something together and using a stock image off 123RF.com instead of actually commissioning a custom image for advertising or decorating a site. As far as I can tell it has literally never been used, probably because it's shit. Here's 7,742 more photographs from the same photographer:

The model is wearing a wedding-ring because she's married and it's not worth the time to put that much effort into each stock image before doing another shoot of her eating a salad or some shit, and she's holding the soldering-iron wrong for the same reason. Plus neither the photographer or the model know anything about the subject. Stock images don't sell for much and often don't sell at all, so it's better for the photographer to throw up a bunch of photos in the hopes of some of them selling than to worry too much about each one.

Deeply analyzing the implied motive behind something isn't the same as actual knowledge, even if it seemed cool when you read a blog post on The Last Psychiatrist doing it. And it works even worse with something like stock photos that even the creator didn't give a shit about. You might as well analyze one of those hand-painted assembly-line paintings from China that Walmart sells or the design on a bag they made out of random scrap cloth.

No, they just didn't give a shit. It's like trying to come up with some elaborate motivation for why a company in China made a bridge by substituting literal garbage instead of concrete to save a few bucks, so that it collapsed a few months later. Nobody is going to buy the stupid image and that's fine, because the photographer only cared about volume. Why would they spend that much time thinking about it when making money off stock-photos is about throwing so much shit at the wall that someone randomly sees and buys it?

Sounds a bit like he was a pro-gg person writing for a neutral or anti and they just shut it all down. I thought AGB was doing some stuff to stand up for us at one point, though they never really made it big.

When is this site going to get fixed? Holy fuck, no wonder all the boards are slowing down it seems.

Literally nobody ever bought it. And that's fine because the photographer is better-off making 10 shit images (and having 1 of them sell) than actually wasting any time or effort making 1 in the same time.

Because you were talking like him and reusing some of his arguments, like the psychoanalyzing wedding-rings in ads. That's at least a possibility while talking about some expensive ad (or analyzing art in a gallery or whatever), though honestly even then it's a stretch, but with stock-images it just doesn't make sense at all.

Occasionally step back and realize you might be reading too much into it, otherwise you come off like that guy who did a Freudian reading of the first Halo or that paper that over-analyzed the gender symbolism of Portal or whatever.

People said that it's just incompetence, or laziness that Treehouse is doing it. They even have the gall to call me a paranoid for saying that Treehouse is shoehorning their feminist dogma into their translations.

Now we're getting this. The blood is on the wall, fellas, they really want to destroy JP video game titles for everyone for the sake of feminism and social justice.

Nyx's line is originally (from the tumblr post): It's not good to say this or that about a woman's body. There are a lot of sensitive people, so be a bit more careful. You don't want to hurt a girl right? So take a woman's emotion a little bit more into consideration"

Basically treehouse twisting the lines when it's possible, just enough to insert political correctness, while trying not to twist it so much that people would notice. Obviously, they failed the second part.

Yeah, I can agree with you there. The big social knot is why so much shit happens to our hobbies and life in general. Way too many subtexts and back dealing for my taste. As is I do some volunteer work and try to keep improving my social skills. Part to make sure I am not tricked and also to further improve myself.

As long as they keep pushing the line this far, we can find all the people who aren't happy with it and told them this is what we warned them about. A bonus is they should know that the media lied to them and told them we were just being hysterical.

I'm a neurasthenic depressed NEET anon. I don't regret going to sleep late because I have no reason to wake up anyway So I just pass the time with whatever bullshit until I get too drowsy and exhausted to keep going.

Yeah, I can agree with you there. With tax time coming, I have become king neet of neet mountain helping some of them deal with back taxes and setting up appointments. Helped a buddy with some business law stuff too. Least the knowledge is being used.

Good sleep habits are actually pretty important to depression, they're closely linked. If you try sleeping earlier on a more regular schedule it might make you feel better. Plus actual treatment and all that, but if nothing else try sleeping better.

Fuck off Netscape you fucking retard, and take Kelly's garbage with you. There's a point where exclusively hanging with and broadcasting the worst trolls and shills in the vicinity of GG makes you no better than a shill/troll yourself.

I know, just pointing out the SJWs are being hypocritical as they basically say only white people can be racist, yet they're bitching about Japanese being racist. Though they're usually hypocrites, so it's not that special.

Meanwhile, countries affiliated with the UN are encouraging acid getting thrown in women's faces and executing people's families for disagreeing with their government, and UN reps are freely trading CP and raping people in third world countries.

Korea is always being occupied and having their asses kicked. They are door mats, which is a part of why Japanese don't like them. They are weak, always losing wars, always being taken advantage of, etc.

Look at their recent history. First it's occupied by Japanese. Then after Japan loses WW2, Korea is divided up and it becomes a key battleground between communist and capitalist with much larger players calling the shots. Now NK is basically China's little government experiment zone and SK is the West's social justice and big brother experiment zone. Koreans' are most proud of their language, which has custom characters instead of loaner characters from Chinese. Meanwhile, Japan has their own alphabets that are somewhat unique and they don't even care because they have a lot of other things to be proud of.